Salt and Your Health

1. Salt and Your Health Charity Registration No. 1098818

2. Learning Objectives • To learn what salt is and what foods it is found in • To learn what effect salt can have on your health • To learn how you can reduce your own salt intake Charity Registration No. 1098818

3. Who are CASH? A group of scientists and nutritionists who want the Government and food industry to take action to reduce salt intake CASH stands for Consensus Action on Salt and Health Charity Registration No. 1098818

4. Thinking caps on… What is salt? Charity Registration No. 1098818

5. Salt vs. Sodium • Salt is sodium chloride (NaCl) • Sodium is an element which occurs naturally and is used by the body • 1 g of sodium = 2.5g of salt Charity Registration No. 1098818

6. Salt: A History • The word salt comes from the word ‘salarium’ in latin (salary) • This is because roman soldiers used to be partly paid in salt Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: FSA http://tna.europarchive.org/20090810121540/salt.gov.uk/hidden_salt.html

7. Salt: A History Salt was once needed as a preservative to make food last longer – we call this increasing “shelf life” Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: freedigitalphotos.net

8. Salt: A History We now have fridges, freezers and cans to make food last a long time Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: Carlos Porto / freedigitalimages.net

9. Where Is Salt Found? • Now the people who make our food add too much! • 75% of the salt you eat is already in the food you buy… Charity Registration No. 1098818

10. Salt: A History Salt can also add flavour to food Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: Carolos Porto/freedigitalphotos.net

11. Salt: A History But there are much nicer and healthier sources of flavours such as herbs and spices… Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: freedigitalphotos.net

12. How much? • If you are 11 years + you should have no more than 6g salt per day • That’s just one teaspoon’s worth! • Younger children should have even less Charity Registration No. 1098818

13. How much? SACN population maximum salt targets for adults and children Charity Registration No. 1098818

14. Too Much Salt • Eating too much salt is bad for your health • This is because it can raise your blood pressure • High blood pressure can harm your health by causing stroke and heart attacks Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: Renjith Krishnan / freedigitalphotos.net

15. Blood Pressure • Blood pressure begins to rise when you are a child • The higher your blood pressure is as a child the higher it will be as an adult • Eating less salt is the best way to prevent high blood pressure when you are older Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

16. Other Effects Stomach Cancer Osteoporosis Stroke Obesity Kidney Disease Heart Attacks Charity Registration No. 1098818

17. Is your food full of it? Charity Registration No. 1098818

18. Thinking caps on… What foods did you see in the video? Charity Registration No. 1098818

19. Activity Which foods contain added salt? Charity Registration No. 1098818

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28. Food Labels • Most food in your cupboards at home will have a food label • These tell you what is in your food Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: FSA http://tna.europarchive.org/20090810121540/salt.gov.uk/hidden_salt.html

29. Food Labels Try reading the following labels. - How much salt? - What is the portion size? - Is the salt high or low? Charity Registration No. 1098818 Image: FSA http://tna.europarchive.org/20090810121540/salt.gov.uk/hidden_salt.html

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35. Food Labels Charity Registration No. 1098818

36. Tonight… • Go through your cupboards and see what types of labelling you can find • Bring in some examples and show your teacher and class Charity Registration No. 1098818

37. Thinking caps on… What can you do? Charity Registration No. 1098818

38. What Can You Do? • Limit the amount of high salt foods you eat • Ask your parents not to add salt when cooking and don’t add salt at the table • Check labels and add up the salt that you would have in a meal or over a day Charity Registration No. 1098818

39. Simple Swaps Swap Ham or cheese sandwich For Chicken, egg or tuna sandwich Plain popcorn Crisps Dried Fruit Biscuits Charity Registration No. 1098818

40. What have we learnt today? • That salt is hidden in many of our favourite foods • That eating to much salt can make us unhealthy • That changing the amount of salt that we eat can be easy Charity Registration No. 1098818

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